Improvement in coal-boxes



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'UNITED STATES PATENT EE'IGE.

GEORGE S. BRUCE, OE CINCINNATI, OIIIO.

lMPROVEMENT IN CQAL-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,595, dated June 30,1874 application led Api-n 25, i874.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. BRUCE, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county,Ohio, have invented a new and useful Coal-Box, ot' which the following`is a specification This invention relates to a receptacle having twodistinct compartments or magazines in it, both open at top, one for lumpcoal, and the other for slack-coal or screenings. The lmnp-coalcompartment has a slatted or perforated bottom, throughor behind whichall finer particles, such as dust, falls into the passage ordischargingchannel ot' the other receptacle or magazine.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Eig. 2is a vertical section, of my improved coal-box. Fig. 3 is a perspectiveview of one form of my slatted bot tom.

A represents a box or bin of any suitable shape and size, and providedwith a hinged lid, B, and extended base C. Extending from side to sideof this box is a partition, D, that divides the box into two unequalmagazines or receptacles, E F, of which the larger and front one, E, isintended for lump coal, and the smaller one, F, for slack or screenings.This partition 1) is preferably inclined, as shown, soas to insure theslack-coal fallin gto the bottom of its appropriate magazine, fromwhence it may be removed through channel G.

The partition D may occupy grooves in the side of the box, and becapable of being drawn out, if desired.

The magazine E is provided with a slatted or perforated bottom, c,through or behind which al1 dirt and dust that fall from the lmnp-coalmust be deposited within the channel G, and can, therefore, be removedwith the slack or screenings. His a flap that covers the entrance tochannel G; but, if preferred, a sliding or other door or shutter may besubA stituted for said hinged flap; or the aperture may be left open, ifdesired. I is a button or catch to hold the flap H in the open position,when desired. A ledge, rib, molding,gor flange, c, around the base ofthe box, prevents dust and slack escaping off from said base into theflo r. This ledge serves, also, to retain upon the base-plate C anywater that may accumulate from melting ice or snow that may he depositedin the box with the coal or screenings.

The base may terminate flush, or nearly so, with the vertical face ofthebox, and its` door be hin ged by its lower edge, and, when open,constitute, in effect, an extension of said base.

This box, with its described adjunets, may

be composed of wood or metal.

I claim as my invention- A coal-box, A, provided with the lump-coalchamber E, having outlet D and slack-magazine F, (the cover B common toboth,) channel G, and door H at the bottom, substantially as described,and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

GEORGE s. BEUcE.

Attest: e

GEO. I-l. KNIGHT, J AMEs I-I. LAYMAN.'

